Queersetti
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And if you want to go into Jazz, well ... that opens up an entire new galaxy.
From Big Band style Glenn Miller (mentioned above), you go to Artie Shaw, Charlie Barnett, The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and dozens of others.
Moving to later years, you get to Stan Kenton, Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Bob James, Earl Klugh, Doc Severinson, Noel Pointer, Jean Luc Ponty, Maynard Ferguson, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Chuck Mangione .... The list there is almost endless.
Then into fusion Jazz, with Pat Metheny, Oregon, etc.
Endless, indeed, because, with respect, I would not recommend that path at all.
I'd advise a noob to start with Armstrong, then Ellington and Basie..
Glenn Miller is to Benny Goodman as Coldplay is to Radiohead. Swing is for the most part the homogenized pop of jazz. The real bloodline runs trough Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.
You didn't mention Bebop at all. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie are essential. Then, Miles and Coltrane. Rollins, Monk, Mingus.
I'd get to fusion through Miles and Herbie Hancock.